Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A service period of a registered worker is a period—
(a) starting on a day when the person becomes a worker for an employer (and is not already a worker for another employer); and
(b) ending on the day when the person next stops being a worker for an employer (and is not already a worker for another employer).
(2) For subsection (1), the continuity of the service period of a registered worker who stops being a worker for an employer but on the next day becomes a worker for another employer is not interrupted by the change of employer.
(3) For subsection (1), a person stops being an employee for an employer (the former employer ) if, for the employee's next service period (the "later period")—
(a) any return under section 49 (Quarterly returns by employers) by the former employer shows no ordinary remuneration for the employee in the later period; or
(b) if the employee had 2 or more employers for the later period—any returns under section 49 by the former employers show no ordinary remuneration for the employee in the later period by each employer.
(4) Despite subsection (1), a registered worker's service period is taken to include any day when the worker does not carry out cleaning work because—
(a) of incapacity for an injury for which the worker is entitled to compensation under the Workers Compensation Act 1951 by an employer; or
(b) if the worker is an employee—the employee has been dismissed by an employer to ensure that the employee does not take long service leave while in the employer's employment; or
(c) if the worker is a contractor—the contractor's engagement by the employer is ended to ensure that the contractor does not take long service leave while engaged by the employer.
(5) For this section, a person is taken to become a worker on the person's registration day as a worker.
Note Registration day —see s 46 (3).
Note for div 2.1
The governance of territory authorities, including the Cleaning Industry Long Service Leave Authority, is regulated by the Financial Management Act 1996 (the FMA ), pt 9 as well as the Act that establishes them.
The FMA, pt 9 deals, for example, with the corporate status of territory authorities and their powers, the make-up of governing boards, the responsibilities of the governing board and board members, how governing board positions can be ended, meetings of governing boards and conflicts of interest.